PORT ANGELES — A 28-year-old man was charged with two separate burglaries Monday, one for stealing from a thrift store’s donation storage area and the other for stealing from a automotive tinting shop.
In the thrift store case, William Patrick Weems, listed as a transient in court documents, was charged in Clallam County Superior Court with second-degree burglary.
He is accused of raiding a secured donation area at Serenity House Thrift Store at 502 E. First St. in Port Angeles on Oct. 29.
A security camera shows Weems entering the area, sorting through items and taking some, court documents say.
Later, when investigators searched a boat at 518 E. Third Street a child’s seat for a bicycle was located.
Investigators say they have camera footage of Weems taking the seat.
Weems admitted to investigators that he was at the donation area the night in question, documents say.
Employees of Serenity House installed the camera because items from the area were disappearing before employees could move them inside.
Weems was also charged Monday with second-degree burglary and first-degree theft of an automotive shop at 83 McCarver Road on Oct. 21.
He is accused of stealing a variety of tools and tinting products, documents say, but the door to the shop may have been forced open before Weems arrived.
Weems allegedly asked another man with him to help sell the items, but the man told Weems that he would need to see a written statement authorizing Weems to sell the items, documents say.
